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U.S. Civil War Research
Use this guide to find primary and secondary sources for the study of the U.S. Civil War, 1861-1865.
Selected Books on Emancipation & Reconstruction
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The Long Emancipation: The Demise of Slavery in the United States by Ira Berlin
Publication Date: 2015Available as an e-book -
Eighty-Eight Years: The Long Death of Slavery in the United States, 1777-1865 by Patrick Rael
Call Number: E441 .R28 2015Publication Date: 2015Also available as an e-book -
The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920 by Manisha Sinha
Call Number: E668 .S56 2024Publication Date: 2024 -
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation by David Brion Davis
Call Number: E449 .D24 2014 -
The Dance of Freedom: Texas African Americans during Reconstruction by Barry A. Crouch; Larry Madaras (Editor)
Publication Date: 2021E-book -
Freedom Narratives of African American Women: A Study of 19th Century Writings by Janaka Bowman Lewis
Call Number: PS153.N5 L457 2017 -
Between Slavery and Capitalism: The Legacy of Emancipation in the American South by Martin Ruef
Call Number: E453 .R84 2014Also available as an e-book -
I Freed Myself: African American Self-Emancipation in the Civil War era by David Williams
Call Number: E540.N3 W55 2014 -
Freedom's Journey: African American Voices of the Civil War by Donald Yacovone
Publication Date: 2004Available as an e-book -
Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade: A Transnational and Comparative History by Ana Lucia Araujo
Call Number: E185.89.R45 A73 2017